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Bug#727708: Call for Votes on init system coupling



Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> writes:
> Russ Allbery dixit:

>> But when providing project-wide guidance, we have an obligation to
>> worry about the error conditions as well.  If multiple logind
>> implementations do *not* materialize, or if they do materialize but
>> then people lose interest

> I question why logind is needed in the first place.  Current-day systems
> are getting way too complex and complicated; we did not need something
> like this a few months ago either.

The link that Colin posted provides a fairly good summary of why logind is
attractive from the perspective of a GNOME maintainer.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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